Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-29 Thread Mike Wright
On 05/27/2012 09:20 PM, JD wrote: On 05/27/2012 08:31 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, when it comes to downloading and saving youtube videos I've found the plugins/extensions for firefox and chrome to work consistently well. The nice thing too is that they convert the flash videos to MP4 so you don

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Gueckel
JD wrote: > firefox add-on... conversion after download I don't like to use add-ons, unless they come directly from Mozilla. clive seems to meet my needs best. I don't bother with conversion, since most applications (vlc, smplayer, etc) play flv files. The few times I did try to convert (with

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-27 Thread JD
On 05/27/2012 08:31 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: FWIW, when it comes to downloading and saving youtube videos I've found the plugins/extensions for firefox and chrome to work consistently well. The nice thing too is that they convert the flash videos to MP4 so you don't need a flash viewer. (using

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-27 Thread Ed Greshko
Peter Gueckel wrote: >JD wrote: > >> I just used clive. Nice app. > >I had some problems with youtube-dl; then, I discovered clive :-) > >> Wondering why setlocale() does not work? > >No idea. Is it supposed to permit downloading videos that are blocked >in your region? >That would be very nice,

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
JD wrote: > I just used clive. Nice app. I had some problems with youtube-dl; then, I discovered clive :-) > Wondering why setlocale() does not work? No idea. Is it supposed to permit downloading videos that are blocked in your region? That would be very nice, if it worked. If you get that wo

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-27 Thread JD
On 05/27/2012 11:29 AM, Peter Gueckel wrote: As a result, I have found clive to be the most reliable solution. I just used clive. Nice app. Wondering why setlocale() does not work? This is the output of clive: Blocked: call to setlocale(6, "") Warning: call to srand(1338162275) Warning: call to

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > What is clive? yum install clive -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a quest

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-27 Thread Edward M
On 05/27/2012 02:42 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: What is clive? A reference would be nice. :-) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=clive+for+linux&l=1 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/user

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-27 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:29 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote: > Michael Cronenworth wrote: > > > $ ps -ef | grep plugin > > # copy the PID of flash ($PID) > > $ ls -l /proc/$PID/fd > > # find the /tmp/flashXX file symlink ($FD) > > $ cp -p /proc/$PID/fd/$FD /home/foo/flash.flv > > Even this doesn't

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-27 Thread JD
On 05/27/2012 11:29 AM, Peter Gueckel wrote: Michael Cronenworth wrote: $ ps -ef | grep plugin # copy the PID of flash ($PID) $ ls -l /proc/$PID/fd # find the /tmp/flashXX file symlink ($FD) $ cp -p /proc/$PID/fd/$FD /home/foo/flash.flv Even this doesn't seem to always work anymore. Some v

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
Michael Cronenworth wrote: > $ ps -ef | grep plugin > # copy the PID of flash ($PID) > $ ls -l /proc/$PID/fd > # find the /tmp/flashXX file symlink ($FD) > $ cp -p /proc/$PID/fd/$FD /home/foo/flash.flv Even this doesn't seem to always work anymore. Some videos on youtube seem to erase thems

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-25 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Adobe obfuscated the /tmp file method several updates ago. The flash > plugin still creates a /tmp file, but it immediately removes the file > link causing any "ls /tmp" calls to not see a file. You can still get > the file data throug

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-25 Thread Michael Cronenworth
Mike Wright wrote: > Does anybody know how to capture a stream now or has that ability also > been taken away? Adobe obfuscated the /tmp file method several updates ago. The flash plugin still creates a /tmp file, but it immediately removes the file link causing any "ls /tmp" calls to not see a fi

Re: how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-25 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/25/2012 12:04 PM, Mike Wright wrote: Does anybody know how to capture a stream now or has that ability also been taken away? Have you tried wget? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/list

how to capture flash, etc

2012-05-25 Thread Mike Wright
Hi all, Time was all I had to do to capture a video stream was start one, pause it and wait while the stream accumulated into /tmp. Once complete I could move it. /tmp is now a deep tree with obfuscated names making such endeavors nigh on impossible. I've feel like I've been Gnomed. Is th